B) Eligibility
The applicant must be a Singapore Citizen or Permanent Resident, a clinician (MD/MBBS/BDS) registered with the SMC/SDC and has a clinical appointment in a local public health institution.
All research must be conducted in Singapore at a public research institute, hospital, medical centre or medical school.
The applicant must be the clinician Principal Investigator (PI), co-PI or Co-I of the healthcare research projects which are competitively awarded and administered by NMRC and related to human subject recruitment.
The NMRC project must already be awarded, and with an end-date on or after 1 May 2021 without a request for grant extension.
Applicants who are already salaried under the NMRC grants and programmes (e.g. PIs of STaR, CSA and TA) are not eligible to apply for salary support under CS/CISSP.
Applicants must spend 0.1 – 0.6 FTE in the clinical research project.
Update: PIs of National Health Innovation Centre (NHIC) grants with project start dates from 1 September 2019 onwards are eligible to apply for salary support of 0.1 – 0.30 FTE. The applicant must also meet the rest of the CS/CISSP eligibility criteria.
C) Review Criteria
Applicants must complete the application form provided and provide a transparent, specific, and detailed account of their functions/activities and recruitment timeline. Applicants should also ensure that their requested FTE support tallies with the activities they indicate and that their requested period of support aligns with the project milestones of the tagged grant project.
Review will be based on an evaluation of the following:
- The reasonableness of the hourly estimates for specific functions
- The clarity of the functions/activities and whether the CS/CI functions could be better completed by others
Applications that fail to provide a detailed account of the time and functions/activities that would align with the requested FTE support would be deemed not fundable.